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The House Intelligence Committee has made public its full 36-page report on Edward Snowden, which was previously classified. The Committee approved the report in September and previously released an unc...
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The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 ("NDAA") is likely to complete its journey into law this week, and so the time has come to spotlight some of the nuggets in it that might matte...
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As noted here, a law forbidding retired military officer from serving as Secretary of Defense until seven years after retirement currently stands in the way of the Mattis nomination, and will require fre...
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Last year, Kenneth Anderson and I published a book entitled, Speaking the Law: The Obama Administration's Addresses on National Security Law, which is a detailed analysis of the Obama Administration's na...
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"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." —Dick the Butcher, Henry IV, Part 2.
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With less than two months to go before it hands over power to the Trump administration, the Obama administration is continuing to fine-tune the legal, policy, and institutional architectures that guide i...
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Dawn Johnsen has a new essay in Foreign Affairs defending the Obama administration’s national security law legacy and drawing lessons for constraining the incoming Trump administration.
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Over at War on the Rocks, I have a post explaining that a new statute will be needed in order for General Mattis to serve as Secretary of Defense. It's been done once before, with George Marshall during...
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The constitutional text governing national security law is full of gaps and oversights. This is particularly true with regard to the President. Notwithstanding occasional claims of extra-constitutional, ...
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Former deputy chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General James "Hoss" Cartwright has been charged with making false statements regarding the leak of classified information on Stuxnet.
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A little more than 99 years ago, and several months after the United States declared its entry into the Great War against the Central Powers of Europe, Charles Evans Hughes declared in a widely publicize...
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Tonight, Longwood University will host the first and only debate between Vice Presidential candidates Tim Kaine and Mike Pence.
